Well, it’s a dysphemism rather than a euphemism, but forms of it are used, and it doesn’t appear to be unique to America. Check this Googling and its alternate suggestion and you see a New Zealand blog mentioning that some “oxygen waster” has finally “reached room temperature”.
Well, it’s a dysphemism rather than a euphemism, but forms of it are used, and it doesn’t appear to be unique to America. Check this Googling and its alternate suggestion and you see a New Zealand blog mentioning that some “oxygen waster” has finally “reached room temperature”.
A very insightful idiom indeed!